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by tomd
Tue Aug 07, 2007 9:00 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Read data from Excel
Replies: 7
Views: 3698

Thanks for your timely response. We currently use open source CPAN Perl modules to manipulate .XLS files. We are quite surprised to find that DataStage does not offer support for this widely used file format. Since we exchange spreadsheets with many customers, both internal and external, we cannot d...
by tomd
Mon Aug 06, 2007 10:36 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Read data from Excel
Replies: 7
Views: 3698

Any advice on where to find linux-based ODBC drivers for Excel and Access?

We're running redhat linux and would like to read/write excel files directly (not via csv format or a windows proxy).